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BUS COMPANIES URGED TO OBEY HIGH COURT RULE FINALS ANNOUNCED RALEIGH President Robert P's Daniels of Shaw University will deliver the main adrireio to the graduating class of the Washing ton High School on Friday May "to, •at 8:30 p. m. in the school audi- . torium. it was announced hen: on Monday. Class day exercises will be held in Ihc auditorium a: Him) Friday | evening. May 23. and the Rev. J. : D. Davis, pastor of the St. Mat thews AME Church, will deliver the annual sermon Commutes Death Sentences ★ ★ * ******* *★ **★**,★* * * ****** PRAISE NEGRO POLICE OFFICERS Cherry Changes Death Sentences To Life Fo r 4 Men The sensational criminal assault case involving four Lumfoerton Negro men and a white woman appeared concluded for the pre sent with an announcement from the Governor's Office that the death sentences imposed by a Robeson County Superior Com t upon the four men had been corn - routed to life. The four men. Cal vin Covington Granger Thomp son, Stacy Powell, and Ciift in man were tried and convicted in Robeson County 7 Superior Court on March 17, 1946 with Judge J. Clawson Williams of Sanford pro tiding. The men had been accus ed of criminally assaulting Mrs. Dorothy Lou Frye Evidence brought out in Uv case indicated that Mrs. Frye was a woman of bad reputation and was prom.isi.ou s with cac* .... bragged in the presence of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, superintendent of Nurses at Thompson Memorial Hospital that she had on occas ion had relations with fourteen (Continued on back page) Drama Marks Democracy's Birth In America REV. OSCAR HOLDER ST. Al (,t STINE'S FINALS SPEAKER RALEIGH Rc--- Osc.ii 1’ Holder. of the Class of 1927, rector . of fhi Church of the Incarnation Jt.'sey City, will oe the baccalaur eate pieachei at the 80th Com im.neeroont of St Augustine's Col- L re Sunday May 25 The Rev. Mi Holder, a veteran of World 'War 11. served as chaplain in Che Pacific Mon, and attained the rank of lieu •‘-nant-coionel. He was former rec tor of Sr Mark's Church Wilming ton. The commenrwnen l address at j the finals on May 2ft will be dr-ih -, wed by Coi. John W. Harrelson, | chancellor of State College, R,< high. e member of ahe Board of Trustees of the College. This year's class will be the sec • •n<i largest to be graduated in tht history of the college. CLEMENCY URGED IN LUMBERTON CASE RALEIGH-—The News and Ob server. local daily, praised Gover nor R Gregg Cherry' for the way •he had handled tlv case of four men accused of raping a Lumber ton white woman and urged clem ency for the men In an editorial Usi Friday, 'The Govervnor te well advised', the editorial reads in part, "to take unusual care in this case Several ft btures about it have disturbed tnonghtSul people The number of defendants involved in one crime r >f its nature is sufficient in itself to suggest extraordnary circum stances. “Tht fact that the woman had visited the Negr< section <-f the city after midnight v. ith a white male companion 1n search of whis key supplies another extraordinary circumstance. Moreover. Judge Walter Bone has recommended cle mency although he denied a new THE CAROLINIAN VOLUME XXVI. NO. 15 RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY JO, 10 17 DRILL 7? TO SPONSOR HAITIAN OAY The Public Affairs Committee of Sojourner Truth YWCA in coopera tion with 'ht Raleigh Branch oi tiie National Association of Coliege Women will sponsor on the third Sunday at 5 o'clock at the Martin St reel Baotisi Church "Haitian Day" At that time it is hoped that :h,. women ol Raleigh will respond liberally to the plea of Madame Es t.'me. wife of the president of Haiti ici aid in building •. $25.00© or phanage fr>, the orphans of that country. S-we ;■! , f 'V;ox -- ftrbs received * letu-r asking foi this help early in the year, but il was lett that a target donation would oc sent, if all the organize luons did what they could this v'oi:;,nued o.i rack page' Williamsburg, V <ANf’> The ortsisskm of Negroes in plans for; the presentation ot "Tho Common i Glory the Virginia o rant a rnark *cg the beginnings oi American de mocracy at Jamestown in 1607. has ;, ised a question as to the feasi bility and hisiotcril value of plan nu-.g a similar celebration no:, year at Jamestown to mark rho 1 arrival of the first Negro slaves in America with a program theme ■•hich would tell the story of then i progress in the new world. White Virginians celebrate an i , THi Jjy the first, landing of James j town colonists at Cape Henry. The : clebration on April 27 marked the ; 340th anniversary of that hsstori | rsJ date with such political leaders j ia- James Hoge Tyler 3rd. repn*- i st-nting Gov Wililatn M. Tuck and I :Sc ;:. A. Willis R on the , ' speakers' list. Negroes had a share in the j : Jamestown exposition in 1907, hut j I have not figured in any ceiebra- j 1 - ‘ 'ns :n a historical way since that : ‘Continued on oack page) trial which was sough! on the basts | of i. formidable «rr of newly dls- I revered evidence it w'il 1 b ! tht Governor is '■ ; gsving the case unusual scrutiny. ! will be well for him to bring j to the case the store of common sr»,vr fnr which he is justly noted.” I The men Calvin Covington. Sta- j ; | ..v Powell. Granger Thompson and j | Cliff Inman—were accused ot critn- 1 : :na! assault on Mrs Dorothy Frye, Lumberton whit woman, on March IT. 1945. in n Negro section near! Lumberton. Goveronr Cherry com* muted their death sentence to life ! imprisonment. Friday * T ALANTA—T*. re years after its . : i". figuration b re the Cafho.bc Colored Cltnic, which treated 407 > | patients in the- first two nuacfiK, j -|nt w is treating an average of 78!’' ; persons monthly. <. J. S. Bowser and L. P. Herns, right, attorneys for the deter.- dan’s in the famous Liam or rton Rape Case Air. Bowser is S.atc j Counsel for the NAACP which supplied funds for the case am Mr Harris is Mr Bowserlaw purine:. i r.c four Negro men at ■■■used of racing Mrs. Dorothy Lou Frye have upon the insistence , by the lawyers and citizens oi Lumbert.in had then' life sentence ; commuted to life imprisonment. NAACP OPPOSES BILL TO AID EDUCATION Hi LOUIS I.AI'TIHR Washington. D C. 'NNPA> D»fft dn„ with the position of the National Association for inf Ad >. • net merit of Colored People re garding race segregation in public schools. Edgar G. Brown of tht. National Negro Council last Mon day obtained permission from the y.-i-au .-tfiu i ilbiiv A f-ijitl • subcommittee, which has beer? holding hearings on federal aid to evocation legislation, to submu. a statement setting forth a contrary view Leslie S. Perry, v::isle!ivt rop . - sen la live of the NAACP had i Mificd that while the. association is unequivocally opposed to segre gation. it does nm regard the hi;' it-.. 472'. sponsored fay four Repub licans and four Democrats, as a LA. HOI SF €F!S \Mi-KKK 810 HARRISBURG. Pa. ■ SIN PA • ! The House last Monday returned to | I committee bill Himod at the Ku KJ (X Kiar: A fioor fight developed over tht a; parent pigeonholing of the bill si ■ nsored by Representative Morris J. Root Republican of Pbiladel ; P* • : 'i- The bill would prohibit dissem ination <>f “false and defamatory c: ■ up propaganda based upon race, ci eri, is&ior. national origin or en try." GREENSBORO HOST TO NAACP CONFERENCE Raleigh - The 1947 confer:-!;.:*', of the North Carolina NAACP will be held r,i Greensboro, June 3S-50 1 it was announced folowistg a mere i ir.i of the Board of Directors ot fhi North Carolina Conference o; i Branches last week. It was reported tter.f five new j chapter; -if the Association frevo; j been ortjnnized in the state and that : two day conches hhe been secured! : to provide transportation for d*!e --! gates to the snnuai meeting nf tin* • National Association in VVashrtg ton on June M. T. J Spraggns. chairman of the i Conference Legislative Committee reported that the Committee at tended the session of the North i Carolina General Assembly and at tempted to he? 5 hills passed that | were favorable to Negroes and con demned those that were unfavo,.- aWt. .... ; means of eliminating it ti; ;.;t S statement before the sub ccriroittc*- Mr. pert v nrr»po»rri an i Coiitinned on page seven St. Augustine' Professor Gelt Tinsley L. Sp.- aggtn- professor ci History at St Augustine s t ollegr has been informed by the Rlla Ly man Cabol Trust that he will vc i * ;vi■ :>!5*o(I io make a study on the political life of the Negro tn North C/'-olioa f*rofc.-..(i; Spracgiri.s h sci-mer principal ~i Culpeper Tvt-.::- ,np School. Culpef*er Va. and Jur.- i-i- Archivist. National Archives. Washing: tv D. C. Besides he is 1... t.. • : • of N AACP. advisor to Iht ■■ C. Student Legislative. As •.-.ri’hly chairman of Social Action Committei of i'.i Sixth Deem in cluding North Carolina and Goud- Cmoliiift? of Omega Psi Phi Fra • . nity. was a member of the Com taittee for City Manage, Gown -lent for the City of Raleigth and Publicity Director of the Cnmmit : c f or the Candidacy of Fred J Carriage for City Council. He u? the author of the foltowing arliclts .ei'ujy. “Mobilwatio.n of Negro La bel for the Department of Virginia (Continued on hrcis past* White, Negrot Friends, But Backs Race C DETROIT .ANT*, - Racial p op- ' cty covenants were again endors- •• :>J last week by Michigan's Su- ' p-cm? court. t«lt.hough the Negro p» neipals have been accepted by • most of their white neighbors The state's higitesi court ruled that Collins Reynold.-, who moved into hi: n-.'v i;Dirte at 17927 St. Au , I 'in three years uro. most abide by racial cove;:ants covering property tr; 'hat arcs. But the human ele has- entered into ihe case ' Jto'jgr nine-year-old Collins Rey !?-. ids. 11l who ha* n'liivurted the Reynold, l -:' home into the neighbor ■-ood headquarters- for ail the chil dren. The Negro iamily. oner hated b> J: the whites in the neighborhood. now neighborhood center. In n c.ition t i (he children visiting the Reynolds' home the parents fre entiy visit to play a game of tail lares. Reynolds n teacher at Gar ‘kid school holder ,f two degrees, revealed rt-cetiUy that, much of the . Improvement of his home has been ■ Charlotte Leads State With Ten Uniformed Cops WORK RESINS ON NEW HDSPITAI MOBILK. Ala uVNP) Ground . i; 'r i■„ *:. - ;> e: Lin i'nnv vari> The institution.. a project of the P.-lolrh;- U e iiiohc chocc-se. wiL ir known as the Blessed Martin m i'■ 1 i - iiospftni for Negroes no •- in sr-ve- os ri training sc.nool -Oi Negro nurses throughout the south ;: addition, it v. ill absorb one •>< south's first Negro matensitv homes the diocese established here rr;ore than five years Ago. The conversion ot the present riv-ilcrnitv hospital into a genera! hr.nit; was termed by Bishop T. J To- lea as a ‘step toward relieving ~i . 4> t trie greatest needs for im provem. nt >i health conditions . .norm Ni-j- rots of the south." Sister Siidi'Karri. viperinierd, n’ of ;! it Mstrwmtv home, said nurse train 'Coe, untied on back pager ’s College s Grant amm "w&m *: »«*• j-- t:; ; rV > W mmm T. ! Sprvi gc ins 2$ Become Court 'overt ants ossibk '-.realise if the neighborly acts" ot those who live around him, v-fc® have {Mined him ladders, lawn ’bowers, pipe, posts and ■it thing.-, neighbors borrow from h other. 7 cat; say that tin- people here have neen very neighborly" Rey nolds declared “All of the kids arc crazy about Collins, and our house: lie.* become their headquarters." He sain (he parents don't object in their children playing with bis rar, because- they “conr- up often fe h“ing overshoes. handerchieis. eaters ;--n.d other things for the ■•uogstfirs" Not one- of the fami lies who threatened to move from (he block three: years ago have V-r.ved Reynolds said. He attributes the racial agitation on restrictive covenants to the Sev en Mile Fenl-m Improvement asso ciation which is trying to keep the area all-white. and said the “fight againyt restrictive covenants must b, carried to the ml' n's highest court." _ , The Intel -racial Commission of | North Carolina has released the! felloe, ins article which is made up. incitements from >-v. ■ a! chiefs. •-f police where Negro officers are ' ij: eri. Wilmington continues as the.! i iiv ein of any size in the slate v.;thout colored officers. The article lolkw.- ? . V S Hi t KJOHN CHIEF OF PiO.it K < HARI OITI '.Vo do •.int'iov Negr-o policemen.; -a navinc 10 uniformed "Negro . on her*. Six years ago we ex per;- r: r- .ted by placing four curefuUy > . ett-d Negroes on our Police r -rre They were cu;ployed on a , basis, holding office at the : ■ the Council The experiment p.ovmg tw.~eess.ful. ne have since added six ddiuonarl Negro offic ei s. ..ho uve under Civil Service and ddtupy 'identic*; Status with ’ at of the white patrolmen work >•.<()• e in urs and are paid the (Continued on page 8) MAN FOUND BEAD ON RR TRACES SMITHFiEI.Jj David Milford of Si Stephens. S C railroad repair t r employee, was found dead i/! i ween the railroad tracks at Bog ie;. Sur.duy morning at H:()lt. (jo - per J. Durwocid Creech reported here Thursday. He said the ease was being kept - per for further investigation, but that no evidence of "foul play" lias teen found tr.d that Milford ap parently fell between the tracks while drunk and was kiikd by a passing train. Coroner Creech stud he had been .Pad about four hours whet he : was t xamined at 73“ Sunday mom- Hu body '■*. as sent to South l nrolina for burial \R MOTHERS TO HOLD MEET MW <»-]] MKBANE - The North Carolina St T(- Chapter ot United Wai Moth- I ers. .■ HI hold their second annual [C- nver-non May 3th and 10th. at [ • Tviebant-. One of the outstanding guest speakers for the occasion will I hi Fr-lessor James T Taylor, pres idvnt of the North Carolina Teach -1 i;-;.. Associaturn Durham. Mrs 1 V’. began state President. HAITI SEEKS INDEPENDENCE Port an Prince. Haiti - NNP A- The -piri: atm pi.trioti.~m which c iusc-d Haiti to be the first free re* ’ ! public in Latin America has beer j railed on by President Dumarsai: 1 ’E- tin:< tb ’liberate Haiti from the ♦ - ~-ifiaJ control ot the United j, j ote.tfS. President Estimc hat- created '(. i nirnitt.ee for Liberation" w hich 1.3* already launched n nationwide drive among the Haitian people to : ; raise five and a halt million Soltop I which to pay off the balance i; 7(122 debt which Haiti ewes !'h» United States and which ur.de; -i : terms allows the United States .wo control completely the financial i | affairs of this republic. • j The Export-Import Bunk a j AVashington last March turned i j driwr Haiti's request for a $20,- j 000.000 loan iinri a refinancing of its obligations to the United States. ; j Informed sources sa> the Haitians i will repay the full amount of the : j 1922 loan as soon as the money is • rrici'h so o~row off the “humilia tion Asked To Comply With Interstate Travel Ruling NEW YORK. CITY >WDL) —Fol ic-wing a 2-week bus trip through the upper south by an interracial .roup. Rev Donald Harrington, nu tunal chairman of the Workers Defense League calk'd upon the Greyhound Corporation and Na tional Trailways B.ss System to. -or -ply with the U. S. Supreme Court decision outlawing jhn crow >r: interstate travel. In letters to the national traffic managers of the two bus companies a Chicago Rev. Harrington point : i-i cut that, two WDL representa tives. James Peck and Joe Felmet, took part in the trip and were i an iic... the 12 arrested. He also re- I culled that the WDL had joined 1 a-, appealing the Irene Morgan case, which resulted in the Supremo Court’s aaiti-iimcrow ruling ‘The tiav cling group found that Vrginia and North Carolina are earn pa rues affiliated with the Na tional Trailways Bus System in evading the Supreme Court deci sion.’ said the letter to F H Mc- Intosh Trailways' traffic manager "The Virginia j imcrow law hav ing been invalidated by this deei i-'on. Trailways is trying to maintain the segregated pattern through company regulations posted in front of the buses. ’’During the group’s 2-week trip Ti a ilways had 12 Negroes and whites including Pecs and Felmet i arrested for riding buses in an un : ■ cregaled manner Some of the Trailway:- drivers and supervisory * employees who swore out warrants : for those arrested showed a com plete ignorance of the Supreme C< urt dec isior. Others expressed ire view that the company's jim ■ Continued on beck page) Rep. Rankins- Praised Fascist Leader Jailed MINNEAPOLIS ANP - A 23- ear-old pro-fascist on whom Rep. John E. Rankin <D.. Mis.; bestowed . signed blessings for hi* anti-Semi -in anti-Negro views, was arrested i oy police here last week on charge.-;, of threatening a breach of the peace. The pro-fascist if Maynard Or irndo Nelson, white a former siu : dent of the Uu-ivc'sity of Minneso ta at id acknowledged "brains" and < “troop leader" of the Democratic! NfixOtiaiisi prfi ly. Specifically, he is. charged with making threats : ag.--in;’ a University pre-lessor Mis ai rest came about when po lice traced the ownership of a rub- ‘ Let stamp used to make Nazi-like anti-Semitic posters which have been appeurng mysteriously on th. campus since last fall. An investi gation of his room by police re- j sealed a small ‘arsenal," in addi tion *•:. anti-Semitic. anti-Negro lit erature much of which carried I . a “Elizabeth Dilling. Chicago.' stamp. Among (he oilier items was a lot te. written and signed by Rankin., I <-»• ofiicial stationary of the house of representatives. The letter was b. led December is. 1945. about month before Nelsert received his p-.in\ discharge, arid read; “I cannot tell you how grateful ! . ';: (or -i:;■i: expressions of coilfi dtnee and I need no! tel! you tha* 1 thor 'Ughiy with every state ment you make of vour own views aj Bfe« maters. 1 note you hope *r be : C urned home soon. I! and - hen you are m Washington 1 will be glad to have you call by my cffice and let me shake your band "1 will stand cy my guns and continue to do rny best to save America for Americans." Continued on page eight CARNAGE LOSES SEAT ON CITY COUNCIL PAi EIGH - Fred J. Carnage, tone I Negro candidate in the Tuesaay. ivi. -. fi eteiiion tor Raleigh's new i: oit) council polled 2772 votes, i, Kfutiviy the seventh highest elected > member of the council by 843 votes > Cl the 2772 voles' received by At i tc-rney Carnage. according to the : p.ecAci t;d uistion ntant than half , . tis suppoit come from white sup i SK?n»»TS. * • Fni some time Rmeigh has as- I I limned the belief that the balance Oi power has been in the poUm , tially strong Negro precincts. This i • belief was jarred to the core in - Tuesday's balloting where the Ne [ sro vote did not represent half of -H? registered strength in behalf of ;! its own representation Comment? throughout the city praise the high ; jest:err, the city showed Mr. Car nage. while at the same time won d;r r. 1 -he lethargy oi nearly one- PROGRAM BAPS RELSOIODS, RACIAL BIAS WASHINGTON ~ Declaring that novel in America's history was unity in faith in American demo :n acy more acutely necessary than now. D: John Slawsori. Executive Vice-President of the American .low ish Committee Thursday pre sented to the President's Commit tee on Civil Rights a national pro , am for intensive and far-reaching attack upon (he problems of viola tions of civil rights, group dissen sion. race and reiigous discrimm anon and bigotry. (Continued on back page) SHWTiTFINALS SPEAKER DIES RALEIGH Officials of Shaw University received word ycstei day of the death of the Rev. H. G. - Pope- of Salem Baptist Church. Jer- I sin City. N. J„ in Baltimore. Mel., ei >ly Tuesday morning Rev. Mr Pope a graduate of North Carolina College (then called the National Training School *. was scneduled to ; deliver the- Baccalaureate sermon m connection with 82nd Commence* ■ merit Exercises Sunday afternoon May 25. at ?. in Groenieaf Chapel of Shaw University, He had been ta ill health for the past several weeks. OFFENSIVE WOODS IN COOK BOOK PROTESTED NEW YORK The NAACP to • day protested t:> the- Culinary- Arts r- ><-»?? publisher of the Southern Cook Book, over the use ol offensive words in so-called folk sayings - printed at the bottom of pages nn d: . recipes in the cook book, 'trie NAACP pointed out that on cage 12 the word ''tugger’’ is used. On page 22 the word "darkies” is used on Page 22. the word “nig get ’ it used again, and still again (" pace 37. On page 39 the word - "coon" i? used and on page 40, the ■vord "darky" is used. 'Continued on back page) Board Os Trade Organized \\ Goldsboro GOLDS BOKO —Henri T. Stocker, president of the United States Ne gro Business and Profesiona! Di rectory, was the principal speaker at the organization of the Wayne County Negro Board of Trade and Commerce here iast Tuesday, He said the board would end the , ideological differences which cause Negro business to fail and would promote development and Improve ment among Negroes Officers of the board arc Dr. M E Duhissette. president; and L, Hamilton, treasurer. - third of its population. A tabulation of the votes cast in the- eighteen precincts fin Mi. Car nage follows: 1- 407; 2— 204. 3 i £27: 4—175: 5—50, 6—21. 7E—«5; 7V. —77; 8—65: 9E —30; pW—B6: 10— 49.6: 11-41; 12—32; 13—84; 14-66; la 223 16—432 Winners in the newly elected -tteil in the order of their popu larity follow: M«ss Ruth C. Wilson, 4421; P D Snipes 4398 Fred B. jv;heeler. 4277: Hobson I. Gattte 5807; John F. Danielson. 3893, Fred Flctchocr. 3635: Joe S Corroß. S6SS. Other candidates polled the fol • owing close vote Roy M. Bank*. Bth. 3428; James C tittle. Jr„ fib. 3-13 S. Linton Smith, 10th. 3238; It W Kennison. 11th. 3537, Alfred Williams. 12th. 3078: Joseph W Wor- I dan, 33th, 2918. and V D. Carnage. 2772, The total vote cast was S4.U,